"Nine years ago, in the warm breeze of a Dakar Spring, representatives of 164 governments gathered at the World Education Forum. An in-depth assessment of the state of education revealed that the 1990s – the first decade of Education For All – had seen little if any progress on education rights. Faced with this stark reality and the increasingly vocal demands of campaigners, governments of rich and poor countries joined together to strike
a new deal which went well beyond the warm words and good intentions of the past." The Global Fund for education.
As mentioned earlier the goal of Education for All is planned to be reached by 2015, for all children, disregarding male or female, and adults. Firstly Education for All is critical as it is a direct impact on child education, reproductive health and environmental sustainability. Conversely other factors such as improved health, access to drinking water, decreased poverty and environmental sustainability are very important to the main achievement of Education for All.
Even though the program of Education for All has achieved many positive factors, more challenging aspects remain to be solved. Currently there are over 77 million children out of school due to many factors including, financial and social. Furthermore, even though access to schooling has improved over all of the countries of the world combined, still only 47 out of 167 countries aiming to achieve Universal Primary Completion (UPE) have achieved the targets. Until 2015, great challenges remain as 44 countries, out of which 23 are in Sub-Saharan Africa, are not likely to achieve the goal of UPE unless applied efforts are rapidly increased. In addition, even thought more primary and secondary education has been applied, still many girls are in the gender gap and hence the probability of achieving this goal soon is low.
To help resolve this issue, the World Bank has been improving the capacity of the Ministry of Education at every level to utilize new and effective policies and programs and of course increasing the resources to finance the activities of these programs. In addition the World Bank has stressed the importance of promoting early childhood development and of course strongly protecting EFA (Education for All) prospects for the future in post-conflict countries. it furthermore, sports and helps education systems that are currently dealing with HIV/AIDS. In addition, the World Bank has been focusing dramatically to the education of girls, more specifically to drastically reduce dropout rates as well as improve the learning outcomes to the maximum potential. All of these points summed up mean that it is essential to increase the access and quality of primary and secondary education as well as the final learning outcome and impact.
About Education for All
Carrying on these ideas, to aid these ideas actually coming true, a special plan has been devised to improve international coordination. It is the Global Action Plan, which is simply a strategy created to enhance the international and country-level coordination for EPA. It aims to unify and clarify the main roles of the main five agencies leading the idea of Education for All forward, UNESCO, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF and the World Bank. This program tries to define their collaborate, or joint, action at an effective and global level.
"Nine years ago, in the warm breeze of a Dakar Spring, representatives of 164 governments gathered at the World Education Forum. An in-depth assessment of the state of education revealed that the 1990s – the first decade of Education For All – had seen little if any progress on education rights. Faced with this stark reality and the increasingly vocal demands of campaigners, governments of rich and poor countries joined together to strike
a new deal which went well beyond the warm words and good intentions of the past."
The Global Fund for education.
As mentioned earlier the goal of Education for All is planned to be reached by 2015, for all children, disregarding male or female, and adults. Firstly Education for All is critical as it is a direct impact on child education, reproductive health and environmental sustainability. Conversely other factors such as improved health, access to drinking water, decreased poverty and environmental sustainability are very important to the main achievement of Education for All.
Even though the program of Education for All has achieved many positive factors, more challenging aspects remain to be solved. Currently there are over 77 million children out of school due to many factors including, financial and social. Furthermore, even though access to schooling has improved over all of the countries of the world combined, still only 47 out of 167 countries aiming to achieve Universal Primary Completion (UPE) have achieved the targets. Until 2015, great challenges remain as 44 countries, out of which 23 are in Sub-Saharan Africa, are not likely to achieve the goal of UPE unless applied efforts are rapidly increased. In addition, even thought more primary and secondary education has been applied, still many girls are in the gender gap and hence the probability of achieving this goal soon is low.
To help resolve this issue, the World Bank has been improving the capacity of the Ministry of Education at every level to utilize new and effective policies and programs and of course increasing the resources to finance the activities of these programs. In addition the World Bank has stressed the importance of promoting early childhood development and of course strongly protecting EFA (Education for All) prospects for the future in post-conflict countries. it furthermore, sports and helps education systems that are currently dealing with HIV/AIDS. In addition, the World Bank has been focusing dramatically to the education of girls, more specifically to drastically reduce dropout rates as well as improve the learning outcomes to the maximum potential. All of these points summed up mean that it is essential to increase the access and quality of primary and secondary education as well as the final learning outcome and impact.
Carrying on these ideas, to aid these ideas actually coming true, a special plan has been devised to improve international coordination. It is the Global Action Plan, which is simply a strategy created to enhance the international and country-level coordination for EPA. It aims to unify and clarify the main roles of the main five agencies leading the idea of Education for All forward, UNESCO, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF and the World Bank. This program tries to define their collaborate, or joint, action at an effective and global level.